the shorter version of the album that was displayed as a museum installation in 2012 and started with "Afrikaner Barista" and ended with "Near Miss Stories" probably would've been a little more perfect but i love the long woolly version of the album in and of itself.

but also when i was talking about this album the other day i figured out i associated it with scritti politti (in the fractured composition production but also generally soundwise it kinda reminds me of anomie and bonhomie) and prefab sprout (idk chad clark's gentle deadpan delivery kinda reminds me of paddy) so this record's kind of a weird singularity for me

was a huge fan of smart went crazy's 'con art' and beauty pill's 'cigarrette girl from the future' EP, but their first album was such a bore i just forgot about them. it felt like they were aiming to that sort of dave fridmann empty(?) grandeur that basically defined his production work on mercury rev/flaming lips albums and ended up with something bloated and ultimately tuneless.